Jules Renard: To romanticize a peasant is almost an insult to his misery. The peasant has no history, or at least no story from a nove

To romanticize a peasant is almost an insult to his misery. The peasant has no h — Jules Renard

To romanticize a peasant is almost an insult to his misery. The peasant has no history, or at least no story from a novel.

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Irony is the modesty of humanity. — Jules Renard
With my lantern , I found a man: myself. I look at him. — Jules Renard
Barring complications, he will die. — Jules Renard
I know at last what distinguishes man from beasts; financial difficulties. — Jules Renard
No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make — Friedrich Nietzsche
Une femme d'esprit est un diable en intrigue. — Molière
From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. — Émile Zola
The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For t — Samuel Butler
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse t — Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
“Are people so unhappy when they love?” “Yes, Christine, when they love and are — Gaston Leroux
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never f — Napoleon
Tell truth and shame the devil. If thou have power to raise him, bring him hithe — William Shakespeare